The nation is getting a close-up look today of a dangerous epidemic. Disturbing images of a drug overdose went viral Friday. They show a couple passed out in a car with their 4-year-old child in the back seat.

The nation is getting a close-up look today of a dangerous epidemic. Disturbing images of a drug overdose went viral Friday. They show a couple passed out in a car with their 4-year-old child in the back seat.

It's something that is hard to wrap your head around. Heroin is a huge problem everywhere and that includes the Memphis area.

On Wednesday night, two heroin overdose calls came across the scanner in a matter of two minutes apart.

Memphis Police Department and the Shelby County District Attorney's office said they see a lot of heroin in the county.

"Heroin and other opiate addictions are now taking more lives than any other city drug in the nation," Col. Paul Wright with MPD said.

That is why MPD and the DA's office have put a public service announcement on MPD's Facebook page about the problem of heroin.

"Just this year, Memphis police officers have handled 263 heroin overdose cases with 75 deaths," the announcement says. "The heroin epidemic has no race or gender that it effects and the victims vary in age."